Love

There is none, O none but you

by Thomas Campion 1567–1620

From Two Books of Airs: Light Conceits of Lovers (c. 1613)

Love

There is none, O none but you,
That from me estrange your sight,
Whom mine eyes affect to view
Or chained ears hear with delight.

Other beauties others move,
In you I all graces find;
Such is the effect of love,
To make them happy that are kind.

Women in frail beauty trust,
Only seem you fair to me;
Yet prove truly kind and just,
For that may not dissembled be.

Sweet, afford me then your sight,
That, surveying all your looks,
Endless volumes I may write
And fill the world with envied books:

Which when after-ages view,
All shall wonder and despair,
Woman to find man so true,
Or man a woman half so fair.

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Two Books of Airs: Light Conceits of Lovers (c. 1613)

MLA

Campion, Thomas. “There is none, O none but you.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/59/.

Chicago

Campion, Thomas. “There is none, O none but you.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/59/.

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